Spiders: An Arachnaphobe’s Worst Nightmare

They say never judge a book by its cover but c’mon, have you seen tarantulas?

Their hairy legs and pathetic need for more than two eyes

Tarantulas are fat losers and have disgusting brown fur

Why couldn’t they be better like other spiders?

At least black widows have their cool red emblem and another even created Spiderman

Tarantulas were probably God’s failed attempt at making dogs

Which is why some weirdos have those freaks as pets

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But why would anyone want to keep one?

They are scary to look out and everyone hates them

While I’m sure that some have a great “personality”

That doesn’t change the fact they are still just hairy freaks.

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Tarantulas are probably just as hated by other freaks as they are by humans

They probably don’t even have other friends

Do you think tarantulas ever question why they are hated so much?

Or why are they so lonely?

If I was a tarantula I would question if being alive was even worth it

I would “fall off” my web or purposefully get squished by a scared Indian auntie

I would lie on the tracks of an impending train and even crawl into the path of a moving car

I would rather die than be one of those freaks. 

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I saw it once in my dream

Its presence, however, turned it into a nightmare

How dare it?

It has the audacity to invade my mind with its luscious fur and horrific stench

I ought to teach it a lesson

I stabbed and punched and kicked and jabbed and choked and fought but nothing

It simply reflected my own blows back at me and knocked me to the ground

Eventually suffocating me in the fur I despised more than anything else

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My death woke me up and paralyzed my sweat drenched body

The shadows in my room morphed into different versions of it

I couldn’t go to sleep without calming myself down in the mirror

But my reflection only scared me more

I saw the regular scared little boy, who hid from his own insecurities

And then I saw the two-legged freak, whose “four-eyes” were too lazy to read the beautiful words beyond the cover of a book

But worst of all,

I saw a tarantula